Notable

In the 1920s, author Sinclair Lewis parodied Rotary in his best-selling books. Rather than complain, Rotary laughed along, invited him to contribute to their magazine, and ended up nearly taking credit for his Nobel Prize in Literature. A model that anyone can use when dealing with criticism.

 

 

Neil Steinberg is on staff at the Chicago Sun-Times, and the last general interest daily news columnist working at a newspaper in Chicago. A contributor to many major publications, from Esquire to Rolling Stone to the Washington Post, he began writing for Rotary Magazine in September and his article on suicide and handguns is slated to run in August.

 

The author of nine books, his latest, "Every Goddamn Day," based on his blog of the same name, was published in October by the University of Chicago Press and includes a brief history of the founding of Rotary.